From CS 796 Spring 2010

CS796-S10: Useful Links

Admin

• Blackboard
  • Submitting Assignments via Blackboard
• CS 796/896 Mailing List
• ODU Honor Council
• CS Dept Systems Group (Unix account questions)
  • Create a CS Account
  • CS Lab Hours
• Printing Lecture Notes

Unix

• Opening X Windows Remotely
• Intro to Unix (Dr. Zeil's CS 252)
• Unix/C/HTML Useful Links
• Emacs Tutorial (Unix text editor)

Professional Communication, Writing, and Presentations

• How to Email a Professor
• How to Talk to a Professor
• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition, Strunk and White
• Writing for Computer Science, Justin Zobel
• ODU's Writing Tutorial Services (these tutors are only for undergrads, but the webpage has great resources)
• ODU's Graduate Writing Assistance Program
• Presentation Methods (from CS 410 / Janet Brunelle, instructor)

Research Methods

• How to Read a Research Paper by S. Keshav, 2007.
• Some Tips for Reading Research Papers by Tia Newhall
• How to Read an Engineering Research Paper by William Griswold
• Summary of a Scientific Article, George Mason Biology Dept.
• A Referee's Plea by Mark Allman
• Library Resources (links for off-campus access to ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore)

Conferences

• ACM SIGCOMM
• ACM HotNets
• ACM CoNext
• ACM Mobicom
• ACM Internet Measurement Conference
• IEEE Infocom

Software

• ns-3
  • ns-3 wiki
  • ns-3 tutorials and manuals